********************Note: I received the following response to the September 22, 2000, posting on "Illinois: Standards slow to catch on."********************

Gosh, experienced classroom teachers think the "latest best thing" might just be a "fad" and won't buy into it, even when educational bureaucrats from Springfield assure them that it's not! Where does all their cynicism come from?

And why can't they find more time in their schedules to do even more stuff? Maybe the state educational bureaucrats should require that they all do some time management in-service......